I shoot D3s and D7000. Both excellent cameras. But D7000 noise looks terrible compared to D3s. I'm not talking about D3s having so and so many more stops better high ISO. When there is visible noise, D3s (and D700) noise looks much more pleasing.

That is something the numeric tests can't tell. Two cameras might have as little noise but the type of the noise may differ a lot.

So far D800 looks like amazingly great camera but the type of noise seems to be less pleasing than D4 noise. Maybe PP could fix that? What do you think?
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